NEC and Wind River are to develop Linux for portable devices, as NEC introduces a Linux development kit for audio-visual data on its EMMA Mobile 1 processor. Just noticed this interesting blog that considers the question who writes Linux? And which companies have done most to support it? Answers are provided by the Linux Foundation.
Just flagging a quick one, from DAC at the end of last week - Mentor unveils Android, Linux strategy at DAC More Android developments to flag, as Google's venture into an Open Source mobile platform gains some momentum. Check out these two items involving MIPS and T-Mobile. Didn't expect to be writing about Microsoft in this blog, but here we are. A bit late flagging this, from last week... but even Redmond is seeing the benefit of Open Source.
Check out an in-depth article recently added to the site - Security concerns drive Carrier Grade Linux
"A dedicated duo of hackers has been hard at work porting Google's other operating system to x86, and they've just released an .02 version of their Android LiveCD build." This final segment will discuss how each of these factors is interrelated as Linux continues its role as the catalyst for innovation in the open mobile ecosystem.
For openness to successfully generate innovation, it has to create a rich ecosystem that both attracts developers and enables them to thrive and prosper.
The term "openness" can be defined in a number of ways within the mobile industry.
Intel and Nokia announced this week that they are to work together to develop mobile chipsets and a Linux-based mobile computing platform for future netbook products.
MIPS Technologies has ported Google's Android operating system to the MIPS processor architecture, aiming to expand the use of Android beyond phones, into digital TVs, mobile internet devices, digital picture frames and set-top boxes.
News from Embedded Systems Conference 2009, in San Jose: "Accomplished for the first time in a commercially available phone, Chicago-based Open Kernel Labs's mobile virtualisation solution enabled Linux and an RTOS to run side by side on a single ARM processor." Many years ago Henry Spencer wrote down what he considered to be ten of the most fundamental rules all C programmers should follow. Reading them now they seem almost funny (anyone still program for a VAX?). But for an embedded engineer they still ring true.
I recently wrote about Emulation, Simulation and Native Development. There is another, related, tool: Virtualisation.
